Emergency responders were drinking on the job as Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida

Waves crash over a seawall at the mouth of the Miami River from Biscayne Bay, Fla. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

On-duty police officers drank beer and talked football while trees toppled and streets flooded as Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on Sept. 9, 2017, according to a police report.

Half the members of a 12-person “Landfall Team” — the only local emergency unit still on the ground — drank Corona Light at City Hall while the hurricane overtook North Bay Village, a tiny three-island city in Miami-Dade County, according to an internal affairs report obtained by the Miami Herald.

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The officers — in charge of fielding residents’ calls and patrolling neighborhoods in special high-water vehicles to ensure residents’ safety — instead spent the night drinking on the job, according to the report.

Shift commander Lt. James McCready instructed officers to stay inside and drink instead of performing their duties, the report said.

“So seven guys cracked open beers, talked football and did what one official described as ‘other things guys do when they get together,’” the documents read, the Miami Herald reported.

McCready provided the beer, setting a white cooler down on the conference room table, and blocking a surveillance camera with a red cup, according to the internal investigation.

Officer Walter Sajdak walked in on the party and was offered a beer by McCready.

He declined and later reported the party to a superior officer.

“I was upset about lives being put at risk, lives being put in danger,” he told an internal affairs investigator.

He accused McCready of jeopardizing “the lives of the officers that were working and the residents by drinking alcohol.”

McCready insisted that officers hide any evidence of a “hurricane party.”

The following day, official police operations ceased, even though there had not yet been an official order for officers to stand down, the Miami Herald reported.

Half the Landfall Team admitted to violating the officer code of conduct, which prohibits drinking on the job, and received letters of reprimand and were forced to forfeit accrued time, according to the report.